After going into town for shopping and a hair cut I came back home and did a full Warm Up and a Round (left side) on the stone patio in front of The Barn. I proceeded to do a Healing Qigong and a round of Empty hand Anyo #2 followed by Nihanchi Kata. Followed by Standing Meditation.
I reflected on the regularity of my effort (practice) and how when you practice daily the practice morphs in ways that are unpredictable and surprising. You'd think that it would get easier with time but alas that is not the case. Although sometimes it is easier when it's not it can be very challenging. The most difficult aspects to deal with a regular (daily) practice are emotional, psychological and spiritual. I find the physical aspect of the practice, the easiest to do. Doing the practice with the 'correct spirit' now that's a whole other level.
Note:
The experience with setting up our sailboat yesterday afternoon brought up the idea that if you let time go by when you do get back to do a project (in this case setting up our saiboat) it's not like you did it last week and the week before, to a certain extent it's 'new' you're starting the project over again.
Questions like "where's this, where's that" and "in what order to we do these things in (putting on the boat cover for example)". It's the same paradigm with internal cultivation practices. Unless you commit to daily practice, you end up starting over time and time again. It's not consistent enough to build today's practice on yesterdays. So....IMO the first order of biz is to develop a regular consistent practice. Preferably daily, whenever possible.